Circles Quote by Peter L. Bernstein

Gambling is a principle inherent in human nature.

— Edmund Burke

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing…

— Jerry Lewis

In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains…

— Richard Arnold Epstein

Sociologists almost uniformly report that increased gambling activities, which are promoted as sociologically 'acceptable' and which are made 'accessible' to larger numbers of people…

— John Warren Kindt

Gambling operates under the premise that greed can be satisfied by luck.

— Rita Mae Brown

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

— John Warren Kindt

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can…

— William Monahan

Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.

— Anonymous

There is in Hollywood, as in all cultures in which gambling is the central activity, a lowered sexual energy, an inability to devote more…

— Joan Didion

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

— Norm MacDonald

I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it's meant to be,…

— Michael Jordan

All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of breeding unwanted…

— Jacob Weisberg